NAME

       vmimcalphot - Determine photometric calibration from a set of observed standard stars.

SYNOPSIS

       esorex vmimcalphot [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

DESCRIPTION

       This  recipe  is  used to determine night zeropoints, atmospheric extinction coefficients,
       and colour terms, from a set of star match tables produced by the recipe vmimstandard. The
       star  match  tables  may  refer  to  different  standard star fields, but they must all be
       derived from exposures made with the same filter and the same quadrant.

       Input files:

         DO category:            Type:       Explanation:           Required:
         IMG_STAR_MATCH_TABLE    Product     Lust of standard stars    Y
         PHOTOMETRIC_TABLE       Calib       Photometric table         Y

       Output files:

         DO category:            Data type:  Explanation:
         PHOTOMETRIC_TABLE       FITS table  Upgraded photometric table

       The only product of this recipe is  an  upgraded  PHOTOMETRIC_TABLE,  carrying  the  newly
       computed zeropoint, and, if requested, new extinction and colour coefficients.

       For more details, please refer to the VIMOS Pipeline User´s Guide.

OPTIONS

       --Extinction <bool>
              Compute  also  extinction coefficient (bool; default: False). The full name of this
              option for the EsoRex configuration file is vimos.Parameters.extinction [default  =
              False].

       --ColorTerm <bool>
              Compute  also  color  term (bool; default: False). The full name of this option for
              the EsoRex configuration file is vimos.Parameters.colorterm [default = False].

       --UseColorTerm <bool>
              Use color term in zeropoint computation (bool; default: False). The  full  name  of
              this  option  for  the  EsoRex  configuration file is vimos.Parameters.usecolorterm
              [default = False].

       Note that it is possible to create a configuration file containing  these  options,  along
       with  suitable default values. Please refer to the details provided by the 'esorex --help'
       command.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for the vimos pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF  file  using  the
       following URL:

              ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/vimos/vimos-pipeline-manual-6.9.pdf

       An   overview   over   the   existing   ESO  pipelines  can  be  found  on  the  web  page
       http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/.

       Basic documentation about the EsoRex program can be found at the esorex (1) man page.

       It is possible to call the pipelines  from  python  using  the  python-cpl  package.   See
       http://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further information.

       The   other   recipes  of  the  vimos  pipeline  are  vmifucombinecube(7),  vmifucalib(7),
       vmimflatsky(7),  vmspflat(7),  vmmosobsstare(7),   vmimflatscreen(7),   vmimpreimaging(7),
       vmmoscombine(7),  vmimstandard(7),  vmmosobsjitter(7),  vmimobsstare(7), vmimobsjitter(7),
       vmspphot(7),     vmdet(7),     vmmosscience(7),     vmmosstandard(7),      vmspcaldisp(7),
       vmifustandard(7), vmbias(7), vmmoscalib(7), vmifucombine(7), vmdark(7), vmifuscience(7)

VERSION

       vmimcalphot 2.9.9

AUTHOR

       ESO VIMOS Pipeline Team and VIMOS Consortium <usd-help@eso.org>

BUG REPORTS

       Please  report  any  problems to usd-help@eso.org. Alternatively, you may send a report to
       the ESO User Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>.

LICENSE

       This file is part of the  VIMOS  Instrument  Pipeline  Copyright  (C)  2002-2005  European
       Southern Observatory

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as  published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;  either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program;
       if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,  Boston,
       MA  02110-1301 USA